I never thought I’d utter these words but…

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I never thought I’d utter these words but…is Mike Williamson the answer, at least in the short-term?

The weekend saw the Newcastle loan player and his Wolves teammates chalk up their third clean sheet out of five matches since he arrived at Molineux, not bad going for a team who had leaked nine goals in their previous three Championship matches.

Mike Williamson has been given a lot of the credit for this turnaround in fortunes for the Wolves defence and even though this is at a level down from the Premier League, should he be catapulted straight back into the Newcastle team in January?

Surely Coloccini can’t continue in the team for much longer at the level he is now showing and the Captain’s form appears to be dragging Chancel Mbemba down with him.

Steve McClaren has shown little interest in including Jamaal Lascelles, although he did surprise us with the astonishing substitution of the defender for Ayoze Perez with United 3-1 down at half-time on Saturday.

Putting another inexperienced central defender alongside Mbemba doesn’t look ideal either and with Mike Williamson the only other option, could it be any worse.

At times in the past Williamson has done a job of sorts for Newcastle and as somebody who appears to play very much on confidence, his spell at Wolves certainly appears to have helped him in that respect.

Obviously there is already much talk of who Newcastle will and won’t buy in January but it is a bit far-fetched anyway to believe that midway through the season, United could land the perfect answer to the central defensive problems for both the short and long-term.